Re: [xsl] Wishes for XSL revisions ...

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:47 AM 12/27/01, Mark wrote:
>  > 2. The target audience for XSLT is not computer scientists or even
>  > programmers, but Web designers

...

> I regret that my opinion of the abilities of web designers is
> determined by a single data point....

Just as before print, we had no authors, editors, copy-editors, 
fact-checkers, catalogers, typographers, or booksellers, but only writers, 
librarians and readers (usually rolled into one as a "scholar"), it may be 
that we will soon be seeing whole new categories of work, including both 
new kinds of designer, and specialists in transformations of structured and 
semi-structured data sets.

The skills of what we now call a "web designer" -- who may be brilliant 
communicators in visual media without being particularly good at abstract 
reasoning -- may or may not be appropriate for much of this work.

Cheers,
Wendell


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